Brill v. . Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently September 1954 · most notably Briggs v. . Carroll (1889), Ely v. . Megie (1916)
68 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Lupton v. Lupton · Hoyt v. . Hoyt · Matter of City of Rochester · Wiltsie v. . Shaw
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The extrinsic circumstances do not tend to show an intention on the part of the testator to charge the legacy on his real estate. Except for the expenses allowed against the estate, growing out of a contest on the probate of the will instituted by the legatee and a niece of the testator, and in subsequent proceedings on an accounting by the executor, the personal estate left by the testator would have been ample to have paid the legacy and the ordinary expenses of administration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carberry v. Ennis
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.